Security and privacy
When HIPPA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted into law back in 1996, it brought with it a significant change to communications with patients, family and other healthcare workers. Every healthcare worker knows the significance and importance of protecting privacy with health care information. For an effective healthcare delivery, trust between patient and nurse/physician has to be developed.
Trust stems from (among many underlying principle) giving that sense of protection and privacy with the information that the patient shares with us nurses and doctors.
Privacy in itself means different things to different people. Protection of privacy especially in healthcare setting promotes individualization and provides a holistic approach because it allows each patient to feel valued, respected and gives them a sense of control and the ability to make personal decision about their health even if sometimes that decision is against the norm. Providing security and privacy in a healthcare setting also allows patient to keep aspects of their lives hidden and free from judgements or discriminations from family, employers and even insurance companies.
Since medical records contain some of the most intimate details about a person’s life such as physical and mental health as well as social behaviors, personal relationship and financial status, patients are always concern about protecting such information.
There’s certainly positive impacts of having implementation for securing health information at work, each patient is given a written document explaining their rights and privacy and they are supposed to sign this document. This allows them to know that their information will be handled in a confidential manner, I know for Yale there’s an added bonus that if you are an employee and suddenly became a patient, the hospital has added measures such as “breaking the glass” to protect their employees for any colleagues being able to
Trust stems from (among many underlying principle) giving that sense of protection and privacy with the information that the patient shares with us nurses and doctors.
Privacy in itself means different things to different people. Protection of privacy especially in healthcare setting promotes individualization and provides a holistic approach because it allows each patient to feel valued, respected and gives them a sense of control and the ability to make personal decision about their health even if sometimes that decision is against the norm. Providing security and privacy in a healthcare setting also allows patient to keep aspects of their lives hidden and free from judgements or discriminations from family, employers and even insurance companies.
Since medical records contain some of the most intimate details about a person’s life such as physical and mental health as well as social behaviors, personal relationship and financial status, patients are always concern about protecting such information.
There’s certainly positive impacts of having implementation for securing health information at work, each patient is given a written document explaining their rights and privacy and they are supposed to sign this document. This allows them to know that their information will be handled in a confidential manner, I know for Yale there’s an added bonus that if you are an employee and suddenly became a patient, the hospital has added measures such as “breaking the glass” to protect their employees for any colleagues being able to